Subj : 4DOS
To   : Peter May
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Sat Sep 18 2004 08:17 am

Hello Peter.

16 Sep 04 18:06, you wrote to me:

 PM> Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Peter May:

 PM> Thanks for your reply Jasen.

 PM>> Hey Jasen,
 PM>> How would he get DOS to see a 4.3 gig HD?

 JB>> first the bios needs to see the hard drive.

 PM> Thats no worries. But then PC-DOS does funny things.

 PM>> I'm having problems with IBM PC-DOS 7:00 seeing large drives,
 PM>> anything over 850 meg and they wont boot properly when I clone my
 PM>> existing BBS drive over to them. Even if I use a newer Valuepoint
 PM>> with better BIOS and drivetable.


 JB>> Have you tried installing dos rather than trying to "clone" it?

 PM> Yep, and then laplinked over the BBS files.
 PM> Initially it worked and seemed stable, but locked up on boot after 450
 PM> meg of BBS files were loaded on.

Sounds like a BIOS problem. - if the DOS version is using more drive cylinders 
than the bios supports correctly you'll get that.

 PM>>  I heard somewhere the Caldera Open DOS or DR-DOS 7:03 will see
 PM>> larger drives and will allow long filenames etc.

 JB>> I have opendos here, it works.

 PM> I've just installed Caldera Open Dos (now called DR-DOS) on the new
 PM> box, it's brilliant and actually seems to work. I might have some
 PM> probs yet with SCSI divers etc, will find out this weekend.

I've not tried generic SCSI drivers with DR-DOS, but other DOS drivers seem to 
work fine (NANSI,SYS, the driver for my ATAPI CDROM, etc...)

Jasen
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